preface

Chapter 1: The Improbable
Chapter 2: Great Design
Chapter 3: The Land of Biomorphs
Chapter 4: Crossroads of Evolution
Chapter 5: The Power of Genes
Chapter 6: The Miracle of the Birth of Life
Chapter 7 Constructive Evolution
Chapter 8: Explosions and Spirals
Chapter 9: Punctuated Equilibrium with a Hole
Chapter 10: The True Tree of Life is One
Chapter 11: The Last of the Competitive Theories

Translator's Note (1994)
Translator's Note (2004)

The mystery of life's evolution revealed by Richard Dawkins, currently the world's most influential scientist and considered the greatest evolutionary biologist since Darwin.

Richard Dawkins, who shot to fame as a best-selling science writer with his first book, The Selfish Gene, has continued to write best-sellers and spark controversy with every book he writes.
Among them, 『The Blind Watchmaker』 has received rave reviews from numerous media outlets, academic institutions, and intellectuals since its publication in 1986, calling it the most popular and the best book on evolution since Darwin's 『On the Origin of Species』.

This book clearly reveals the nature of the conflict between creationism and evolution, and served as a driving force that brought the creationism vs. evolution debate to the surface.
It also covers the fateful intellectual debate between Dawkins and Gould that continued until Stephen Jay Gould's death in 2002, and is considered to be of great importance not only as a book on evolutionary theory but also from the perspective of the history of science.


In 1994, at a time when there were no books on evolution, Minumsa published The Blind Watchmaker in Korea through a professional and proven translation by the "science generation."
Over the next ten years, discussions on the theory of evolution began in earnest within our scientific community, and many books on the theory of evolution were published.
However, at the center of active evolutionary discussions, The Blind Watchmaker has always been a textbook.

Science Books Co., Ltd. has republished this book with a new translation to reflect the new evolutionary theory terms that have been re-established in the domestic academic world and to make it easier for more readers in the new century to understand.
This book, newly published as 'Science Classic' by Science Books, Inc., is a classic science book that easily conveys the essence of science and its social influence to the general public and helps them understand humans and the world more deeply and broadly.